Publications

Publication details [#10326]

Young, Linda Wai Ling. 1980. Inscrutability revisited. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 6 : 219–226.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative style | crosscultural context | discourse strategy | social relationship

Annotation

Y. shows that some of the Westerner's claims concerning the peculiarities of the Chinese mind and the Chinese preference towards harmonious social relationships can be traced to culturally-specific notions of acceptable discourse strategy.

Reprints

Gumperz, John J. 1982. In Gumperz, John J., ed. Language and social identity. Cambridge University Press. pp. 72–84.